Job Description

Band 8a

Main area

Management and Acute Medicine

Grade

Band 8a

Contract

Permanent

Hours

Full time - 37.5 hours per week

Job ref

343-7181536-FM-AG-A

Site

Cross site - Epsom & St Helier

Town

Carshalton and Epsom

Salary

59,490 - 66,239 per annum Incl. HCAS (Outer)

Salary period

Yearly

Closing

09/07/2025 23:59

At Epsom and St Helier Hospitals, above all we value respect. We put respect at the heart of all we do, by living up to our shared behaviours of kindness, professionalism, positivity and teamwork. This enables us to provide great patient care and make ESTH a great place to work. When you sign up to work with us, you sign up to this and we welcome applicants who share our values.

Job overview

Acute Occupational Therapy Lead and Therapy Manager

An exciting opportunity has become available to join Epsom and St. Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust as the Acute Occupational Therapy Lead. Occupational Therapy plays a vital role in the acute care setting, ensuring that patients experience a seamless and positive journey during their inpatient stay and beyond. Our Occupational Therapists collaborate closely with physiotherapy colleagues, the wider multidisciplinary team, and community partners. The team provides services across two hospital sites in a diverse range of clinical areas, such as respiratory, cardiac, elderly care, general medicine, renal and surgery.

We are seeking a motivated and committed individual with clinical and managerial experience who is keen to further develop the service in the capacity of professional lead. This role will be undertaken in partnership with a supportive therapies management team.

This may be your first experience in a management role or you may have previous experience at this level.

For further information or to discuss this opportunity informally, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Main duties of the job

To provide a high quality and responsive patient focused service to the patients of Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust resulting in good evidenced based outcomes.



The acute therapy service achieves this through providing assessment, diagnosis and effective treatment and management of patients accessing Occupational Therapy services in Epsom Hospital and St Helier Hospital and enabling access to community and other services for patients with Physiotherapy requirements.



To reduce length of stay, reduce duplication, increase response rates and single assessment processes across the patient pathway



To be the Professional Lead for acute Occupational Therapy



To operationally lead and develop Acute Occupational Therapy services on the acute sites for both adults and paediatrics.



Acute Therapy services comprise the following teams:


Occupational Therapy Physiotherapy Dietetics Speech and Language Therapy Admin Team

The post holder is will have primary operational responsibility for Occupational Therapy. However it is expected that the post holder will work closely with the other Acute Therapy Managers and professional leads to provide cross cover for each other as required.

Working for our organisation

Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust provides a range of medical services to approximately 490,000 people living across southwest London and northeast Surrey. In addition, we provide more specialist services, in particular renal and neonatal intensive care, to a wider area, covering parts of Sussex and Hampshire.



We serve an area that is rich in diversity, with a mix of urban and rural areas, and differing levels of quality of life. We cover some of the most prosperous postcodes in the country, as well as some poorer areas. Together with our colleagues at NHS Surrey and NHS Sutton and Merton, we work to make sure that we deliver the best possible care to the communities we serve.



The Trust employs approximately 5,000 staff across its hospitals and is supported by over 500 volunteers.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached supporting job description and person specification document which contains more information about the role and requirements. Please ensure your application refers to the job description and person specification.



The recruiting team reserve the right to close this advertisement early once applications reach maximum limit.

Person specification

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Values & Behaviours

Essential criteria

Putting the patient first Taking opportunities to improve Work as one team Respect each other #

Qualifications and Training

Essential criteria

Relevant OT qualification and HCPC registration Experience of NHS management Evidence of CPD

Desirable criteria

Teaching & Training experience #

Experience

Essential criteria

Extensive experience of providing Acute OT Consolidated experience of managing and appraising staff Experience of managing change Experience of managing health & safety in the workplace

Desirable criteria

Experience of recruitment Experience of budget management #

Skills & Abilities

Essential criteria

Clinical leadership skills Effective communication skills Ability to influence and problem solve Positive attitude to change and flexible approach Ability to prioritise and work independently Committed to an integrated approach

Your application

: Please ensure that you have read the job description and person specification and that your supporting statement reflects these, as your application will be assessed and scored against these criteria.

References

: You will be required to provide 3 years of employment/educational history. We

do notaccept references from personal email addresses such as Hotmail, Gmail etc. therefore please ensure you are providing professional working email addresses within your application form. If you are unable to provide professional email addresses and are invited to an interview, please ensure you advise the interviewers of this - otherwise, this may delay your pre-employment checks.

Closing date

: In order to streamline recruitment within our Trust, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications.

Shortlisting

: You will only be contacted via e-mail/SMS by the SWL Recruitment Hub if you are successfully shortlisted for this post. Please ensure that you check your Trac registered e-mail regularly.

DBS

: We are committed to safeguarding children and adults who are at risk of abuse. As such, if this post will have access to children or vulnerable adults, you will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check. However, all employees have a responsibility for safeguarding children and vulnerable adults in the course of their duties and for ensuring that they are aware of the specific duties relating to their role.



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Disability Advice Line:

SWL Recruitment Hub is committed to promoting equity and equal opportunities for individuals with disabilities. We believe that greater diversity and inclusion will lead to an even more positive impact on the people we serve. For support with job opportunities and reasonable adjustments contact our

Confidential Disability Advice Line at:

Telephone: 02082963786

Text: 07501066267

Email: esth.dal@nhs.net.

Our confidential answering service is available after 5pm.
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Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.


The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.